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Title
Keeping watch in Babylon
Type
Text
Monograph
Multimedia
Contribution
Haubold, Johannes (Editor)
Steele, John M. (Editor)
Stevens, Kathryn, 1986- (Editor)
Subject
Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian (LCSH)
Astronomy, Ancient (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: QB19
DDC: 520.935/5 full
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Content
text
Summary
This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to 'keep watch in Babylon' and how their approach changed in the course of the collection's long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion.
Table Of Contents
The early history of the astronomical diaries / John Steele
Babylonian market predictions / Mathieu Ossendrijver
Logging history in Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia : historical entries in dated astronomical diaries / Christopher Tuplin
Who wrote the Babylonian astronomical diaries? / Eleanor Robson
The astronomical diaries and religion in Seleucid and Parthian Babylon : the case of the prophet of Nanaya / Lucinda Dirven
The museum context of the astronomical diaries / Reinhard Pirngruber
From Babylon to Batar : the geography of the astronomical diaries / Kathryn Stevens
Royal presence in the astronomical diaries / Marijn Visscher
History and historiography in the early Parthian diaries / Johannes Haubold
The relationship between Greco-Macedonian citizens and the "Council of Elders" in the Arsacid period : new evidence from astronomical diary BM 35269 + 35347 + 35358 294 / Yasuyuki Mitsuma.
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Keeping watch in Babylon
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Change Date: 2019-04-02T13:10:39
Creation Date: 2019-04-02
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